the N.P. Yowell Building was built in 1910 for a prominent Orlando merchant of the same name. It was designed by Jacksonville architect W.B. Talley, and built by George Venable. When opened, it was a dry goods store. Built at the same time was an . . . — — Map (db m53308) HM
The Peoples Bank building, on the Southeast corner of First Street and Magnolia Avenue, was completed in 1906 and was the most modern building in this block. The Peoples Bank opened its doors on August 30, 1906. It was built by the contractor W.G. . . . — — Map (db m53246) HM
The PICO block was completed about 1887 for Henry B. Plant, President of the Plant Investment Company (PICO) and served as the company offices. The remains of a carriageway may be seen on the west side along Oak Avenue which was originally Railroad . . . — — Map (db m53597) HM
Built as a hotel in 1887 for Henry B. Plant, President of the Plant Investment Co. (PICO), the PICO Building served as a terminal hotel for the railroads and two river steamers owned by Plant that served Sanford. The architect was W.T. Cotter of . . . — — Map (db m53606) HM
This two story building was built in 1910. It served the Sanford Herald, a newspaper that began publication in 1908, as offices and printing room. The architect and builder was W.G. Hammond. The Sanford Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows . . . — — Map (db m53247) HM
Finished in 1887, this building was built by Colonel A.M. Thrasher who was President of the Sanford Ice and Cold Storage Company. It originally housed a saloon and a sporting goods store. The Romanesque Revival architecture style is typical of many . . . — — Map (db m53226) HM
This was the home of Rev. Roscoe Halyard and his wife Flora, both active participants in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Rev. Halyard, who was associated with Zion Baptist Church and worked as a carpenter, made trips to both Tallahassee and . . . — — Map (db m21208) HM
Pedro Horruytiner y Pueyo was the first documented owner of this house, a member of a prominent Spanish family. Don Pedro Benedit Horruytiner and Don Luis de Horruytiner were governors of Florida during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). It . . . — — Map (db m111752) HM
This house was already extant in 1763, when Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain. It was then a one-story, two-room, shingle-roofed coquina stone structure owned by Pedro Fernandez. A British owner added the loggia.
In 1784, when the Spanish . . . — — Map (db m77290) HM
The house was built as a residence for Gaspar Garcia and Spanish characteristics are still evident including how the building relates to the street edge and the coquina stone building material protected under a stucco finish. Later, a third floor . . . — — Map (db m108143) HM
For more than three centuries this site has been occupied by St. Augustinians. Beginning about 1650, a succession of thatched wooden structures were their homes. This coquina stone house was built soon after the English burned St. Augustine in 1702, . . . — — Map (db m77288) HM
This house was built circa 1809 by Francis Xavier Sanchez and his wife, Mary Hill of Charleston, lately of Virginia. That is the probable reason for the English colonial interior rather than the usual Spanish. This house was retouched for posterity . . . — — Map (db m46790) HM
Historic records indicate that in 1816 a wooden structure occupied this property and by 1829 it was replaced with this prominent two-story coquina stone structure. Concerted efforts to preserve this structure began during the preservation movement . . . — — Map (db m102380) HM
This building is associated with New Deal construction and significant for its architecture as an example of Mission Revival style applied to a civic building. Local coquina stone materials and the selection of prominent local architect Frederick . . . — — Map (db m112490) HM
Like a restored masterpiece, the St. Augustine Visitor Information Center continues to do what it has done since the day it opened: Welcome visitors to St. Augustine.
It was the Junior Chamber of Commerce that first proposed the idea of a Civic . . . — — Map (db m112491) HM
The St. Augustine Waterworks Pumping Station was constructed by the City of St. Augustine in 1898 on land conveyed to the city by Henry Morrison Flagler for their mutual benefit. Flagler saw the need to provide a sanitary supply of water to his . . . — — Map (db m229565) HM
These coquina walls were once part of the Franciscan chapel and friary of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, established by missionaries from Spain. Before these walls rose, thatch-roofed wooden buildings on this site were burned in 1599, . . . — — Map (db m6000) HM
The magnificent Victorian-style quarters along Marine Street were constructed by 1885 as part of a complex of residential buildings for officers and senior enlisted soldiers when St. Augustine was a federal military reservation. These residences . . . — — Map (db m155057) HM WM
To save it from pending demolition, this three-story, steep gable-roofed house was relocated to Old Town St. Augustine on December 7, 2004. This was not the first time the house had moved. In a former life it was the north wing of the Hildreth . . . — — Map (db m134500) HM
Constructed shortly after the turn-of-the-century near the Castillo del San Marcos, the Mary Peck House has undergone nearly as many changes as the post-Flagler period St. Augustine in which it was built. In the past century, the street in front . . . — — Map (db m79689) HM
The Alcazar Hotel, opened by Henry Flagler on December 25, 1888, was designed by his architects, Carrere and Hastings. Flagler ordered it built to provide activities for wealthy winter visitors. It was the center of social life for half a century . . . — — Map (db m47051) HM
Built in 1891, the St. Johns County Jail held prisoners until 1953. The previous county jail was located next to the Hotel Ponce de Leon in downtown St. Augustine, Florida. Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913), co-founder of the Standard Oil . . . — — Map (db m79613) HM
Built in 1888. Originally housed The Surprise Store, "The largest and leading Department Store on Florida's East Coast". In 1934 it became The Plaza Hotel. From 1949-1986 it was the home of Potter's Wax Museum. — — Map (db m93401) HM
The Segui-Kirby Smith House is one of only 36 Spanish Colonial houses remaining in St. Augustine. The house dates from the late 1700s. The site on which it is situated has been continuously occupied since the late 1500s.
In 1786 it became . . . — — Map (db m107411) HM
This two-story coquina house and detached kitchen was built for Spanish merchant Andres Ximenez ca. 1798 for use as a general store, tavern, and family residence. After Florida became a U.S. Territory in 1821, Margaret Cook bought the property in . . . — — Map (db m193852) HM
The infantryman José Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant, lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, José Coruña, a . . . — — Map (db m77286) HM
An original Minorcan home constructed of coquina stone and owned by members of the Triay family until 1885. Restored in 1951 by the St. Augustine Historical Society. Acquired by Robert Gudrun Hall in 1963, and placed in 1986 on the National Register . . . — — Map (db m93366) HM
Upham Winter Cottage 268 Saint George Street 1893 is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m144124) HM
Home of Bartolome Villalonga (1789-1825), son of Juan Villalonga of Minorca, and husband of Maria Acosta, of Corsican Greek parentage, erected between 1815 and 1820. — — Map (db m102378) HM
The Warden Winter Home was built in 1887 for William G. Warden of Philadelphia. A partner with Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company, Warden was also the President of the St. Augustine Gas and Electric Light Company and . . . — — Map (db m46681) HM
St. Augustine's first water pumping station was completed in 1898 and supplied the town with water from an artesian well. An adjacent fountain first aerated the water in a park-like setting before it was pumped into the building and then piped . . . — — Map (db m229579) HM
This property is a significant example of Spanish, British and American architectural influences. The one story kitchen building is as old as the original rectangular two story house. An addition to the house, being used then as a boarding house, . . . — — Map (db m108341) HM
Built between 1803 and 1812 by Jorge Acosta (c.1764-1812), a native of Corsica, and husband of Margarita Villalonga, born in St. Augustine of Minorcan parents. — — Map (db m102394) HM
The Arrivas House was built as a one-story, two-room coquina house shortly after 1702 on the ruins of a late 17th century tabby house. This property passed down through four successive generations of mothers to daughters as a marriage dowry. When . . . — — Map (db m237115) HM
Built ca. 1740 Reconstructed 1967
A house representative of the first Spanish period with minor British modifications. The reconstruction of this residence was made possible from contributions of
A.D. Davis and J.E. Davis
Winn Dixie . . . — — Map (db m107554) HM
Coquina in these Walls (English)
Special to the architecture of Government House and St. Augustine's defenses, churches, and residences is coquina, a rare native shell stone formed over a long period of geological time and quarried since . . . — — Map (db m127486) HM
The De Hita-González site originally contained two separate buildings. At the time when the Spanish evacuated Florida in 1763, Bernardo González owned a house of coquina and directly adjacent to the south was the tabby house of Juana de Avero and . . . — — Map (db m237114) HM
The stone walls of this building date from before 1750 and were part of a house owned by the Royal Treasurer late in the First Spanish Period. During the British Period it served for a time as the home of Governor John Moultrie. In 1837 Dr. Seth S. . . . — — Map (db m46797) HM
This house was reconstructed on original foundations in 1965. It represents the "house of stone" that was the residence of Pedro de Florencia in 1763. Florencia, a merchant and store owner, came from a long line of native St. Augustinians.
In . . . — — Map (db m236970) HM
Henry M. Flagler built the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) to link his resort empire and establish the east coast of Florida as “The American Riviera.” Flagler, partner with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, developed the Atlantic . . . — — Map (db m77255) HM
The Gómez House is representative of the board-and-batten structure on this lot at the end of the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). Such frame buildings comprised only 23 percent of all St. Augustine structures in 1763. Most buildings by the middle . . . — — Map (db m236949) HM
Built c. 1798 by Sebastian Oliveros, a Corsican mariner and trader. This historic house was reconstructed by L.C. Ringhaver in 1965. — — Map (db m102362) HM
Three major phases of town growth are depicted in this house. The first phase is represented in the first floor's L-shaped plan of coquina during the First Spanish Period, the second is an eastern wing built in the British Period, and the final is . . . — — Map (db m102382) HM
The well was used from 1823 to the early 1880's. The remnants lay buried and forgotten until city of St. Augustine public works employees discovered the well, with assistance from the St. Augustine Archaeological Association, while renovating the . . . — — Map (db m46811) HM
This building was reconstructed on original coquina foundations. The size of the excavated foundations suggested that a two-story house stood here by the early 1700s. The 20th century builders of this reconstruction used colonial construction . . . — — Map (db m236948) HM
Fernando Rodriguez, sergeant in the Spanish Army at the Castillo de San Marcos Fort, built his house on this site during the first Spanish occupation (1565-1763). In 1760, he commissioned Juan Perez, Master Builder, to add the northeast coquina room . . . — — Map (db m102365) HM
This house is a significant example of the evolution of Spanish Colonial dwelling which began as a small, wooden, single-room Spanish domicile. An expanded ground floor built with coquina stone and a second wood floor with dormers was added prior to . . . — — Map (db m102366) HM
After Great Britain returned Florida to Spain in 1784, artillery Captain Pedro José Salcedo arrived from Havana to serve at the Castillo de San Marcos. In 1784 Salcedo bought this property with a two-story coquina house, which had replaced an . . . — — Map (db m237106) HM
This reconstruction was built on original foundations, which date from the middle of the 1700s, when the house belonged to Pedro de Florencia. During the British Period (1763-1784) the property was held in trust by Jesse Fish, an agent for the sale . . . — — Map (db m236969) HM
This area in the heart of Lincolnville was associated with black education for nearly a century. This lot was the site of the Presbyterian Parochial and Industrial School, headed by Rev. James H. Cooper. It was demolished in 1940 and the grounds . . . — — Map (db m40701) HM
Constructed before 1885, this is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Lincolnville, an historic neighborhood founded by freed slaves after the Civil War.
It was home to two generations of the Moran family. Horace Moran was the chef at the . . . — — Map (db m21194) HM
This house was built in the 1920s and purchased a decade later by Jutson Ayers, who worked as an alligator wrestler for a quarter of a century at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm before his death in 1958. His widow, Mrs. Rena Ayers, gave important . . . — — Map (db m17914) HM
Bethel Baptist Church was founded in 1939 by Rev. William Banks, the former pastor of St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church on Washington Street, and other members from that congregation. Land was acquired on Riberia Street, and the church building . . . — — Map (db m240829) HM
This house, overlooking Maria Sanchez Lake, was built in the 1950's for a distinguished family of educators. James G. Reddick was a longtime principal of Excelsior School and his wife Maude was the supervisor of black schools in St. Augustine in the . . . — — Map (db m21187) HM
The St. Augustine office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was located in this building from the 1970's until the early 1990's. The organization's roots in the Ancient City began much earlier. William English . . . — — Map (db m21181) HM
Built by Henry Flagler, the Alcázar Hotel opened as a companion to the Ponce de León in 1888. The building, one of the first multi-storied structures in the country constructed with poured concrete, was designed by John M. Carrere and Thomas . . . — — Map (db m115580) HM
The Hotel Alcazar was constructed by Henry Flagler, Standard Oil Company co-founder and developer of the Florida East Coast Railway. The Alcazar was part of a trio of Moorish and Spanish Renaissance Revival styled resorts that depicted Flagler's . . . — — Map (db m112489) HM
Methodist Episcopal
Church South
Perry, Florida, Est. 1870
Sanctuary Built 1917
Placed on the National Register
of Historic Places 2015 — — Map (db m230040) HM
The Blodgett House
Built 1896
Restored 1997
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m157060) HM
The story of the WH Gardiner building began in the early 1900's when the nationally renowned photographer William H. Gardiner moved to Daytona to escape the winters on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Gardiner was best known for his hand-tinted . . . — — Map (db m213207) HM
The Warren Harding building has a very political past. The building was built by David Sholtz around 1920 to house his growing legal practice. Sholtz's offices were located on the 2nd floor. Before Warren G. Harding became president, he wintered at . . . — — Map (db m219067) HM
Welcome to DeBary Hall Historic Site - once the winter retreat of a wealthy New York wine merchant. European-born Frederick deBary (who used a small d while others capitalized) built this house in the 1870s, acquired thousands of acres, . . . — — Map (db m175936) HM
DeBary HallBuilt in 1871 by Baron Frederick de Bary. Born 1815 in Germany of Belgian descent, de Bary came to New York in 1840 as agent for Mumm's Champagne. His estate of many hundred acres here in Florida was a hunting and fishing preserve . . . — — Map (db m46164) HM
One of deBarys’ early outbuildings was this frame ice house. From the retreat’s start in the 1870s, it would have been helpful to visitors and cooks.
At first, the estate’s ice came from northern rivers, and lakes, and ice farms. Packed in . . . — — Map (db m176076) HM
The tenant house is a mystery. It could be older than DeBary Hall and might have belonged to settlers who sold Frederick deBary the core acreage for his retreat. Those owners lived on their land, but exactly where is not clear.
By 1882, . . . — — Map (db m176041) HM
The oldest building in Florida in continuous use for higher education and the first building on the Stetson University campus. Originally housed the library, chapel, classrooms, gymnasium and offices. Later used as women's residence, kindergarten, . . . — — Map (db m45502) HM
In 1905 the Landis & Fish Law Firm erected a brick one-story Romanesque-style building on this site. As the firm grew, it was enlarged in 1925 to the two-story Federal structure you see today. Begun by Cary D. Landis and Bert Fish, the firm was . . . — — Map (db m46032) HM
The three buildings called "The Haven Block" extend from 112 to 116 N. Woodland Blvd. These three Romanesque-style buildings have been home to countless businesses for over a century. In their early history was Haven's Hall on the second . . . — — Map (db m45638) HM
Coronado Beach was settled by Foster G. Austin in 1885. Austin built a series of beachside cottages approximately one mile south of Flagler Avenue. In its early days, Coronado Beach, named after Austin’s native community in California, served . . . — — Map (db m93313) HM
This museum occupies the site of the first school in New Smyrna and Volusia County. It was built in 1872 at a cost of $42 and was a school for children of all ages. — — Map (db m148770) HM
Presented by
The Ormond Beach Historical Trust Inc.
to the
Anderson-Price Memorial Library
in recognition of the designation
on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the
United States Department of the Interior
January 26, . . . — — Map (db m173815) HM
The Ormond Fire House, the only Works Progress Administration (WPA) structure in Ormond Beach, was built in 1937. The eclectically-designed two-story building features elements of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture and is . . . — — Map (db m93308) HM
This property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Place
by the United States
Department of the Interior
April 19, 2005
Ormond Yacht Club
Est. 1910 — — Map (db m148694) HM
Built by Flagler East Coast Hotel Company in 1904 for the 1905 races. This landmark in the history of the American automobile industry was the setting for the preparation, testing and servicing of some of the most famous racing cars of the world . . . — — Map (db m93311) HM
This building was the home of the Station’s Principal Keeper and his family. It also contained the Light Station office and library. The U.S. Lighthouse Service Principal Keepers who served here are:
William R. Rowlinski . . . — — Map (db m234786) HM
In 1898, James N. Gamble, of the Procter and Gamble Company and a longtime winter resident of Daytona Beach, bought this land on Spruce Creek for use as a rural retreat. In 1907, he built a small cracker cottage with an open front porch and a . . . — — Map (db m96191) HM
“Who loves a garden, still his ‘Eden’ keeps.” Amos Bronson Alcott
The estate was bought in 1963 by Lois Genevieve Maxon, who planned the gardens which enhance the lovely natural setting and restored the mansion in antebellum style. . . . — — Map (db m41134) HM
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